USA Weekly News #24

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Across
  1. 1. large farm
  2. 6. First African American to be Speaker of the House of Representatives
  3. 9. Life was especially hard for slave ________.
  4. 11. Slaves were considered to be __________ of their owner.
  5. 13. Helped slaves find the will to survive
  6. 15. another word for owner
  7. 16. another word for city
Down
  1. 2. tax on imported goods
  2. 3. Largest city in the United States in 1860
  3. 4. inventor of the steel plow, and now a brand of green farm equipment
  4. 5. manufacturing plants
  5. 7. People first brought ________ to North America in the 1500s
  6. 8. Slavery was thought to be one of the most important parts of the Southern ___________.
  7. 10. Crop on which most Southerners depended for their income
  8. 12. another word for the country
  9. 14. Most of the large cities in 1860 were located in this region